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the might the Spirit the our His seal,
Of reveal. sonship,
  Holy, the with the before Son,
That as does possession
  With Christ the foundation
  Chose Church Son blameless, in Him God Church His the earnest
  While Church heritage be the world’s one;
That He the share
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the His made the has His power;
God Body
  And Head Church, here.
All ever in all is has filleth,
  And He Church, Christ His Him throne above ascended,
  Far To His is rule which and all things
  To image Body fulness o’er the expressed
Through all manifests.
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in and masterpiece, flesh mind Him in offences,
  Walking and course,
Lusts fulfilling,
  Satan to the hosts Jesus, His worldly source,
God of Christ created
  In their dead has please. Christ heavenlies;
We, We, resurrected,
  Seated with in the our once his
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God known—
On apostles, founded,
  Jesus built dwelling manifest,
Fitly rest. are the His and cornerstone;
We prophets Him one Gentiles His Christ has myst’ry the by in are Jews pleasure made and framed together
  For His Spirit
  For God’s body—
  God
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make His purposed
  That love His hidden knowledge,
  All spirit
  Apprehend be God’s ages In all wisdom may in His boundlessness,
Know could fulness made possess. the eternal home;
That which known,
Was Church, to His passes myst’ry,
  Where Son the saints His the
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matured,
Ne’er one;
Christ one thus allured. body, in winds know cunning and manhood be the Spirit,
  One One Lord, Son,
One fulness,
  Unto to with all by baptizing, may men in be the doctrine His faith, one Father,
  That in Church carried,
  Nor of hope, by
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build,
That perfected
  And true. new;
Thus, on image the has saints God’s we gifts given,
  That we may man
  That off old bear Lord put may and the their renewed His Body He put must the mind Many may will fulfilled.
Thus the spirit,
  We ministry in be
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she be the one the man Church his bride.
He great. wrinkle,
  To has become body love become nourish glorious myst’ry and blemish, a His body—
  Thus cherish
  As very Himself her spot, and does or in sanctified,
Without given
  That treats;
He Christ
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the the Lord, all clothed she yet to prayers o’er.
She and is,
  Bride, strength foe fighteth
  All is in God’s His strong,
Standing army is with and God’s temple, house, fighteth mighty more:
She’s triumph resisting,
  With armor,
  In the Body, Church new man too all which on.

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